WEST CHESTER, Pa. —Brandywine Flight School has added two taildraggers — a Cessna 140A and Cessna 170A — to its fleet of airplanes at Brandywine Airport.
With these new additions, the flight school will offer “classic flying” instruction to its array of aviation packages and rental services, officials noted.
“It makes educational sense to offer primary flight training in a tailwheel airplane. A student aviator, training in proper tailwheel techniques from the outset, will possess good directional control skills and rudder awareness,” says BFS head pilot James Wawrznyiak.
“We are very excited to add the two Cessna taildraggers to our fleet. It is getting difficult to find a flight school where a student or trained pilot can learn skills necessary to operate a tailwheel aircraft to rent, let alone receive training,” added Stephen Richards, CEO/owner of Brandywine Flight School. “There is a serious lack of flight schools offering ‘classic airplane instruction’ or ‘old school’ aviation where students can learn.”
Brandywine Flight School is hangared across the gate, near the main building, on the south side of the Brandywine Airport. Plans are being developed to renovate the office administration space to make instructor and student space more technologically and learning accessible, officials noted. The flight school’s fleet includes Cessna and Piper airplanes.
The light colored aircraft is the 140A with a single strut. The red aircraft is the 170A with two struts per side. The Cessna 170 & 170A were fabric covered wings. The Cessna 170B were metal skinned wings with the single stut.
The 170A had a metal wing &a single wing strut. The 170 double struts& fabric wing. I own a 1949 170A & love it! Fun airplane.
The light colored aircraft is the 140A with singel lift strut. The red aircraft is the 170A with fabric covered wings and two struts per side. Cessna 170& 170A had fabic covered wings while the 170B had metal wings and a single strut
Neat to see a flight school that is interested in tailwheel airplanes!
Some edificatio, I’m the owner of both airplanes. The red aircraft
Is the Cessna 140A originally fabric hence both wing struts. The white aircraft
Is the Cessna 170A. All 170’s had metal wings hence the single strut. Come to OQN and fly these classic aircraft.
More edification for and from me. The red aircraft is a Cessna 140 which originally had fabric wings, the rest metal. The 140 A and B had metal wings with a single lift strut each side.
The white aircraft is a Cessna 170 A. The original 170 had a fabric wing and two lift struts per side. The 170 A and B had metal wings with a single lift strut.
Congratulations, BFS; flight school additions and expansions are always GA good news.
I grew up in West Chester, and know the students’ experience will be even better given Chester and adjacent Counties’ farm- and woodlands scenery. (BFS should consider running a special in the Fall, when all the colors come out.)
Every 140A I ever saw had a single lift strut?
Indeed the C-140A has a metal skinned wing with the single strut.
despite the caption problem in the story it is great to see a flight school expending, and on the lower cost “light” side as well, not just adding more high power “advanced avionics” airplanes.